Kingdom of Lesotho: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics

IMF Staff Country Reports, March 24, 2022

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A government finance statistics (GFS) technical assistance (TA) mission was held remotely with the Lesotho Ministry of Finance (MOF) during April 5–16, 2021.
The TA responded to a request from the authorities and was part of the Data for Decisions (D4D) funded project under the submodule for Fiscal and Debt reporting.
Previous TA missions under the Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative (EDDI) over the period spanning from 2016 to 2020 supported improvements in GFS compilation and dissemination for the budgetary central government (BCG).

The EDDI-supported work inspired action to broaden data coverage to include local governments and extrabudgetary units (EBUs) with the aim to compile and disseminate consolidated general government GFS.
Preliminary local government GFS have now been compiled.
Data were collected for selected state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and parastatals, including non-market SOEs that can now contribute to preliminary general government GFS to be compiled.

Subject: Data collection, Economic and financial statistics, Economic sectors, Financial statements, Government finance statistics, International organization, Monetary policy, Public enterprises, Public financial management (PFM), Public sector
Keywords: cashflow statement, Data collection, Financial statements, financial statements data, Government finance statistics, government finance STATISTICS yearbook, Lesotho highlands development authority, parastatals data availability, Public enterprises, Public sector